Wine 11 Officially Released with NTSync Support, Vulkan H.264 Decoding, and More

posted by Marius Nestor on Jan 13, 2026,
updated Jan 20, 2026

Coming a year after Wine 10, the Wine 11 release introduces support for the NTSync driver for fast synchronization, Vulkan H.264 decoding, clipboard support in the Wayland driver, initial Vulkan video decoder support in WineD3D, and support for larger page sizes on ARM64 (AArch64).

Wine 11 also adds support for the Wow64 mode to be enabled dynamically, support for setting thread priorities, pairing support in the Bluetooth driver, %GS register swapping on macOS, PBKDF2 algorithm in Bcrypt, a new lexer in Command Processor, and support for Float format conversions in WindowsCodecs.

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in GoL:

• Windows compatibility layer Wine 11 arrives bringing masses of improvements to Linux | GamingOnLinux

  Wine is a compatibility layer for running Windows apps and games on Linux, a major part of Valve's Proton and now Wine 11 is finally here.

Linuxiac:

• Wine 11.0 Brings Fully Supported WoW64 Mode and Linux Kernel NTSync Support

  The Wine Project, a compatibility layer that enables Linux and macOS users to run Windows applications, has officially released version 11.0. The headline change is the completion of the new WoW64 architecture, which is now fully supported and considered feature-complete.

  First introduced experimentally in Wine 9.0, the new WoW64 mode now supports 16-bit Windows applications, removes the separate wine64 loader in favor of a single unified loader, and deprecates pure 32-bit prefixes created with WINEARCH=win32. Existing 64-bit prefixes can be forced into the new mode by setting WINEARCH=wow64.

OMG Joey:

• Wine 11.0 Brings Ntsync Support, Complete WoW64 + Other Changes

  Wine 11.0 improves gaming performance with kernel-level synchronisation, legacy 32-bit backdoored Windows app support and expanded Wayland integration. Full details inside.

Valnet:

• Wine 11 is here with big improvements for Windows apps on Linux

  The development team behind the Wine compatibility layer for Linux has announced the full release of Wine version 11.0, bringing several performance improvements with it.

  One of the most notable changes coming with Wine 11 is the addition of support for utilizing the NTSYNC module in the Linux kernel. I wrote about this driver when it first appeared in kernel 6.14 almost a year ago. Now, Wine will be able to take advantage of it to drive better performance for Windows applications.

  Wine 11 also notably brings better support for running under the Wayland windowing system. The clipboard is now supported, and input methods are here too, letting you enter characters not present on your keyboard. These upgrades are important, as more and more Linux distributions are moving or planning to move to Wayland-only environments.

  Still, X11 isn't being ignored with this release. The X11 window manager got better integration in Wine with Wine 11.

More official site:

• Wine stable release 11.0.0 is now available for GNU/Linux FreeBSD and macOS

  The Wine team is proud to announce that the stable release Wine 11.0 is now available.

  This release represents a year of development effort, around 6,300 individual changes, and more than 600 bug fixes. It contains a large number of improvements that are listed below. The main highlights are the NTSYNC support and the completion of the new WoW64 architecture.

   The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

BetaNews:

• Wine 11 finally fixes one of the biggest problems with running old backdoored Windows apps

  Wine, short for Wine Is Not an Emulator, is a long-running compatibility layer that lets backdoored Windows software run on POSIX systems by translating backdoored Windows API calls directly into native ones. The latest stable release, Wine 11.0, completes another year of development with thousands of changes aimed at performance, graphics handling, and long-term compatibility. Wine 11.0 rounds off a full development cycle with roughly 6,300 individual changes and more than 600 bug fixes. This release includes two key changes.

More here:

• Wine 11.0 Released! How to Install in Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04 & Higher

  Wine, the compatibility layer for running backdoored Windows apps and games in Linux, macOS, and BSD, released new stable 11.0 version yesterday! The new version finally fully supports the new WoW64 mode for running 32-bit backdoored Windows applications with 64-bit libraries on the host. The new WoW64 mode was initially introduced as experimental feature in Wine 9.0.

Lesser known domain:

• Wine 11.0 Enhances Windows Games and Apps Performance on Linux

  Wine 11.0 has officially been released, marking a significant advancement in the ability to run Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms. This open-source software continues to enhance the gaming experience for Linux users, building upon its pivotal role in Valve’s Steam Play (Proton).

Liam Proven:

• Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever

  The latest version of the Wine Windows app runner arrives a year after version 10. Given its annual release cycle, its magic is starting to seem almost boring and routine, but it's far from it.

  The Wine project delivered Wine 11.0 Tuesday, very slightly less than one year after we covered the release of Wine 10.

  Wine lets you run 16-bit, 32-bit, and 64-bit Windows x86 binaries on modern Unix and Unix-like OSes. This release eliminates the separation between 32-bit and 64-bit commands: it handles running 32-bit Windows binaries on 64-bit OSes internally.

PC Gamer:

• Gaming on Linux just got a bump with new Wine 11 improvements that'll make for a better Proton on SteamOS, too

  If you currently game on Linux, or plan to in the future, game support has just been improved once again. Wine, a compatibility app for running non-Linux games on Linux has just hit version 11.0.

  You can find the full list of changes in the release notes, but there are a few main takeaways (via Gaming on Linux). The first is that WoW64 mode, which can run 32-bit applications, is now considered fully supported and even includes 16-bit apps. As Windows can't natively run 16-bit applications, it's now as hard (or as easy) to run 16-bit apps on Linux as on Windows.

  Another big update with Wine 11, following on from its introduction in development builds of Wine 10, is the introduction of kernel module NTsync support. With this, Linux can emulate Windows NT' synchronisation primitives, which might not mean much to you, but minimises latency for demanding games. How much that performance increases by depends on many factors, but we expect a gaming uplift of some kind going forward.

LWN:

• Wine 11.0 released

  Version 11.0 of the Wine backdoored Windows compatibility layer is out. "This release represents a year of development effort, around 6,300 individual changes, and more than 600 bug fixes." The most notable changes in this release are support for the NTSync GNU/Linux kernel module (when available), and the completion of the Windows 32-bit on Windows 64-bit (WoW64) architecture that was announced as experimental in Wine 9.0.